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A middle school in San Rafael, Calif, is using the nonprofit program Corstone to teach self-esteem and emotional resilience. "The notion behind it is crisis and challenges are inevitable in life, what really matters are your ability to deal with it, the choices that you make," the program's executive director said. The school is the first public school in California to implement a Corstone program, used in more than 50 countries.

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Texas teachers will be expected to follow an overhauled science curriculum in six months, and many are training to become familiar with the new standards, which will have a focus on chemistry and favor hands-on learning. Each campus in the Aldine school district has named a chemistry team leader who will attend training and relay what he or she learns to the rest of the staff, and other districts are sending teachers to workshops and buying equipment.

A proposed school-bullying measure was endorsed by a Massachusetts legislative committee Tuesday and is set to be voted on in the state Senate next month. The bill addresses on-campus bullying as well as cyberbullying and would require schools to adopt prevention and intervention strategies. The bill does not require schools to report bullying incidents to the state, an omission that drew criticism from some.

Budget cuts and an increased focus on testing have taken their toll on the fine arts curriculum at schools in the Detroit area. Just 40% of Detroit's 172 schools have an art teacher on staff -- compared with 80% a decade ago -- and just 30% offer music courses. Experts fear the trend -- now spreading from urban to suburban schools -- will affect student learning, with research suggesting that students who study arts do better overall in school and are more likely to go on to college.

The Los Angeles school board voted to give control of 22 schools to groups of teachers, who beat out a number of outside charters and a nonprofit group run by the city's mayor in their bid to run a majority of the 30 new and low-performing schools up for grabs as part of the district's school-reform efforts. The remaining schools will be run by charter operators, the nonprofit organization or under shared leadership. Union leaders said they were heartened by the decision, while charter supporters said they were dismayed by the board's actions.

Former hedge fund analyst Salman Khan now devotes his time to providing free online help for students who are struggling with math. In this interview, Khan talks about his nonprofit enterprise, Khan Academy, which now has 1,200 short instructional math videos posted on YouTube that are accessed by an estimated 100,000 students each month.